Anthropic
Research Manager, Biological Safety
$405K–$485K
San Francisco, CA +1 · Manager · Full-time · Posted Sep 2, 2026
- Location
- San Francisco, CA
San Francisco, California, United States - Experience
- No fixed overall years required; years correlate with internal job level. Preferred: 3+ years people management and at least 8 years hands-on life sciences experience.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree or an equivalent combination of education, training, and/or experience; relevant field demonstrated through coursework, training, or professional experience.
- Visa sponsorship
- Visa sponsorship is available, but not for every role or candidate; the company says it will make every reasonable effort to obtain a visa after making an offer.
About the job
Leads a research engineering team developing and evaluating biological safety safeguards, including datasets and classifiers, for Anthropic’s models.
What you'll do
- Manage and develop a team of research scientists and engineers, and set the team’s technical direction and priorities.
- Oversee biological capability evaluations, safety classifier development, and measurement of safeguard performance under adversarial pressure and in production.
- Turn evaluation results into deployment recommendations and partner across Research, Product, Policy, and government affairs.
What they ask for
- Experience managing a technical team, including hiring, coaching, and performance management.
- Proficiency in Python, scientific programming, and data analysis; solid grasp of ML fundamentals.
- Knowledge of modern biology spanning measurement and engineering, including high-throughput assays and functional characterization.
- Experience designing quantitative experiments or evaluations and drawing defensible conclusions from noisy results.
Nice to have
- 3+ years of people management experience; experience building a team or function from a small headcount.
- At least 8 years of hands-on life sciences experience; experience with LLMs, production ML classifiers, biological ML, or adversarial robustness is also preferred.
Pay
$405,000 — $485,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, ML, Claude
AI focus
Develops and evaluates AI biological safety safeguards: capability evaluations, safety datasets and classifiers, adversarial testing, and deployment recommendations.
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